enabling brain injury survivors to help each other

Author: jimbohumphries

Headway teams up with BBC Stories to explain brain injury in VR project, which allows participants to assume the roles of 20-year-old twins Anna and Lauren to discover how their lives are changed in an instant … More Is Anna OK? BBC Stories

Four years ago, 2014, life threw me a curveball and turned my life upside down. I was looking forward to a couple of weeks off at the end of July. My first day off was a warm and sunny day and enjoyed a day of doing just … More John’s Story

I was waiting for my morning train to go to work on a Tuesday morning when my body shut down, causing me to fall onto the concrete platform. When my head connected with the platform it fractured the back of … More Luke’s Story

Having a brain injury is not a death sentence (although it sometimes feels like it), your brain is an incredible part of your body with tremendous capacity to heal and repair itself. If you have an acquired brain … More UKABIF Short Film Award 2017

I survived 5 brain haemorrhages in December 1992 before getting a scan and then life saving brain surgery to remove a colloid cyst from the third ventricle, on the top of my spine, in the middle of my brain. Initial diagnosis in the … More Paul’s Story

One year before Anna’s birth I was carefully “minding the gap” and also trying to lose baby weight from my first pregnancy. First pregnancy went great, Paul was born 7 days later, on 25 June 2005. Paul was conceived in 2 … More Anna’s Story

Description of Injury Event and Initial Treatment:
CASK mutation related to mutation in X-chromosome. First study on CASK mutation was published in 2008 and Anna was born in 2009. Where treatment … More Anna’s Brain Injury

How does one put this in words? Roger was found unconscious in Bushy Park, having come off his bike on the way to work. My initial feelings were fear at the thought of his death. How did you learn about potential injury … More Sara’s Perspective

Found in Bushy Park, I was riding to work. Memory stops about a minute before so no ideas as to the why. I was taken to St George’s where I had a head to hips CT scan and ECG. This found that I had fractured my … More Roger’s Story

We were fortunate enough to meet Ben and his father at the ABIL conference in September. Sharing the stage with other brain injury survivors is an important way for us here at BITP to network and help … More Ben Again

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